According to the 2010 census, population in Henry County didn’t grow as much as it shifted from east to west.
Growth in the county was very low, about 300. But the population shift was considerable.
Because of that population shift, the county must redraw its magesterial district lines. The lines, while redrawn this year, would not take effect until 2013.

By Jonna Spelbring Priester
General Manager
Holy Branch Gourds started, as so many things do, as a children’s project.
Bonnie Lander already had a passing interest in painting gourds, but she turned that interest into a project for her children when they were young. But, as so often happens, as the children aged, they got interested in other things.
The business formally began in 1983, and has grown from painted gourds to... just about anything.

Henry County High School students may pick up schedules July 26- 28. Pick up times are:
July 26 and 27 – 1 to 7 p.m.
July 28 – 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Students must pay instructional fee of $60 when picking up schedules.
Students on free/reduced lunch are not required to pay instructional fee.
Parking passes can also be purchased at this time for $5 each. Parents and students will park in the front parking lot and enter through the front entrance.
FRESHMEN

Police are investigating the cause of a fatal crash near the intersection of U.S. 42 and Ky. 524 about 5 p.m. Sunday.

Preliminary investigation revealed that a Ford F-250 pick up truck was traveling westbound on U.S. 42 when the vehicle struck the guardrail on the northside of the roadway. The truck exited off the southside of the road.

A so-called prank left more than 1,000 Oldham and Henry County homes with little or no water pressure this week as firefighters scrambled to shut off gushing fire hydrants and police searched for the pranksters.

Oldham County Dispatch received calls from 100 to 150 homeowners without water late Tuesday and heard reports that the driver of a blue Jeep Cherokee had been opening hydrants.

A lightning strike sent a father and his young son to the hospital Sunday evening as storms rolled through Shelby County.

Shad Hinkley, 40, and his 11-year-old son Braedin, who are from Cropper, were fishing at the farm of Gene Wilder at 7248 Bagdad Road when the incident happened, said Dora Wilder, the mother of Gene Wilder.

The two were fine by Monday, and Hinkley’s son had already been released from the hospital.

Hinkley said they were preparing to leave the pond as the lightning started, but they hadn’t been there too long.

Pittman was working on training her dog Eloise to be a therapy dog when she met trainer Kia Grace. Grace introduced her to the idea of training a service dog. “At first, I was excited and thought it was a great idea,” she said.